South Korea’s Daehan Shipbuilding has sealed a cope with compatriot proprietor Pan Ocean for as much as 4 1,000 teu vessels, marking its first containership order since its institution.
The order is made up of two 147.9 m lengthy agency models, with choices for one more two vessels. Daehan will begin building in June subsequent yr and ship the primary two ships sequentially from Might 2023. No value has been revealed.
Daehan expects that diversifying ship sorts by way of entry into the smaller boxship phase will broaden its challenge orderbook as a result of excessive demand from small and medium-sized home transport corporations. “With a purpose to improve gross sales and income, we’ve got been working arduous to develop a strategic ship sort that may be constructed concurrently with a medium-sized ship within the free house of 1 dock, firm’s spokesperson mentioned.
The shipyard additionally just lately gained a contract from Tsakos Vitality Navigation (TEN) to construct as much as six dual-fuelled LNG-powered aframax tankers, doubtlessly price round KRW500bn ($418m).